Learn Explore “This Exquisite Forest” Alongside Chrome As Well As London’S Tate Modern

This morning, inward partnership amongst the Tate Modern inward London, nosotros released an online fine art experiment called This Exquisite Forest, which lets yous collaborate amongst others to create animations too stories using a web-based drawing tool.

Seven renowned artists from Tate’s collection, including Bill Woodrow, Dryden Goodwin, Julian Opie, Mark Titchner, Miroslaw Balka, Olafur Eliasson and Raqib Shaw, convey created brusk “seed” animations. From these seeds, anyone tin add together novel animations that extend the flush or branch it inward a novel direction. Or yous tin outset a tree of your ain amongst some friends. As to a greater extent than sequences are added, the animations grow into trees, creating a potentially interplanetary space give away of possible endings to each animation.



In improver to the website, an interactive installation volition opened upwards on July 23 inward the Level three gallery of Tate Modern. Trees seeded yesteryear Tate artists—and the contributions from the public—will last on display every bit large-scale projections. Gallery visitors may also contribute using digital drawing stations.

This Exquisite Forest uses several of Google Chrome’s advanced HTML5 too JavaScript features to arrive at a unique content creation too exploration experience. For example, the Web Audio API makes it possible for contributors to generate music to accompany their submissions. The projection also runs on Google App Engine too Google Cloud Storage.

Please try it out at ExquisiteForest.com too contribute your ain animation to aid the wood grow.

Posted yesteryear Aaron Koblin, Google Creative Lab, Data Arts Team

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